Preamble

We, the sovereign Filipino people, imploring the aid of Almighty
God, in order to build a just and humane society and establish
a Government that shall embody our ideals and aspirations, promote
the common good, conserve and develop our patrimony, and secure
to ourselves and our posterity the blessings of independence and
democracy under the rule of law and a regime of truth, justice,
freedom, love, equality, and peace, do ordain and promulgate this
Constitution.